Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: >> >> What do you guys do? > > I would also like to run rsync as non-root, although I run it as root > now. > > I would like to do: > > start rsync standalone > connect to port 873 > possibly chroot > run as nobody > > Is that possible? I understand that rsync changes from root to some > non-root uid when it starts transferring, but in the mode where it > processes commands there is a window of opportunity to make it do things. > I would then like to close that window. > Why not use xinetd? That's what it's designed to do. -hpa